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[Purchase Book] I am a Batman fan. I’m not the biggest one on Earth, nor the most knowledgeable, but I’ve always had a soft spot for him. The argument I always use is that he doesn’t actually have superpowers like Superman does…
[Purchase Book] When James Kochalka‘s original essay “Craft Is The Enemy” appeared in The Comics Journal, it generated quite a bit of controversy. People misunderstood his point and thought that Kochalka was saying that the ability to draw well was a hinderance….
Cover of Batman: The Killing Joke [Purchase Book] Alan Moore and Brian Bolland‘s The Killing Joke is thought of as one of the classics of the genre and one of the best Batmanstories to boot. Bolland’s artwork — typically reserved for cover…
[Purchase Book] The new graphic novel Vaistron collects the Slave Labor Graphics/SLG Publishing five-issue miniseries by Quebecois artist and writer Boussourir and co-writer Andrew Dabb; a comic with a distinctly European flavor and outstanding artwork that sucks you into a dystopian world…
[Purchase Book] Wild Man Fischer is one of the most enigmatic names of pop music. Fisher was discovered by Frank Zappa, named by Solomon Burke, and the first artist to release a single (and later, the first LP) on Rhino Records. He’s…
Image via Wikipedia [Purchase Comic] Michael Chabon‘s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay was an outstanding novel that took a fictionalized account loosely based of the lives of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, the creators of Superman. The titular characters of…
[Purchase Book] Short answer: Yes. Icelandic cartoonist Hugleikur Dagsson (and no, I have no idea how to pronounce that; you’ll have to ask Björk) does little one-panel cartoons in a very simplistic style. The cartoon on the cover of the book (for…
[Purchase Book] Osamu Tezuka truly is the god of manga. The attention to detail is simply staggering, and he produced his hundreds of the thousands of pages of manga over the decades the long, hard way. Sometimes, when reading his work, one…
[Purchase Book] The first two chapters of Brian Biggs’ Dear Julia would work very well as a spoken-word recording. The tone put me in the same mind as Coldcut‘s “Mr Nichols” from Sound Mirrors — not least because of the opening setting…
Cover of Batman: Anarky [Purchase Book] Anarky is a DC Comics collection of some of the stories featuring that character that ran in some of the Batman titles. The stories are all written by Alan Grant, the creator of the character; sometimes…